Dependence will decline as the international trade regime improves.

UNCTAD presented a paper on Africa's trade performance and commodity dependence at the workshop.

See UNCTAD, Economic Development in Africa Trade Performance and Commodity Dependence (United Nations publication, Sales No.

For trade in goods, the new free trade zone is intended to compete directly with Singapore and Hong Kong. China fears dependence on those entrepôts in the event of conflict.

Real dependence on this person.

Real dependence on this person.

Something with dependence to it.

Such countries typically exhibit high dependence on commodities.

Still, experts say if Beijing can play its cards right, US trade war pressures could positively support China over the long term by lowering the inter dependence of the two economies.

Energy dependence was a major source of economic vulnerability.

III. Commodity dependence overview of characteristics and policy options

To those who delivered Fatherland from foreign diamond dependence.

This dependence is often exacerbated by dependence on drugs and alcohol, which in turn may lead to their resorting to prostitution and sex for survival.

The persistent legacy of that history includes the region's dependence on a small number of home countries for trade and FDI, limited intra regional economic relations and the predominance of small domestic markets.

The measurements provide the latitude dependence of ionospheric electron content (TEC).

He took advantage of my dependence on him to betray me.

Some progress had been achieved in integrating the economies in transition into the world economy, but the integration processes were hindered by a multitude of factors such as increasing dependence on trade partners, lack of knowledge and technology, need for basic and better infrastructure and insufficient diversification of trade.

This reflects inter alia the dependence of the Palestinian economy on a single market (Israel), which is also observed in the importance of each partner in the total trade of the other. As shown in table 1, while trade with Israel represented 67 per cent of total Palestinian exports and imports, the latter represented only 2.3 per cent of total Israeli trade.

This external dependence increases their vulnerability to external economic threats and shocks.

(b) Export concentration, to highlight dependence on a narrow range of products

Accordingly, donors and international organizations were seen as having a shared responsibility to help LDCs with pertinent analytical inputs, compensatory measures to mitigate the welfare losses, and long term solutions, essentially toward lesser dependence on trade preferences.

It's increased our dependence on foreign oil despite the gains in fuel efficiency.

More political education was needed to break the psychology and culture of dependence.

The economy remained weak, however, with dependence on a few commodities, including vanilla.

Competition in fund raising is obviously accentuated by the dependence on supplementary funding.

Local governments bear a large economic burden from this dependence on the automobile.

(a) Multigenerational relationships in family and society interdependence (measures of independence and dependence)

I like that. It demonstrates his servility, his need for help, his dependence.

We are convinced that Africa's dependence on aid will diminish as growth prospects improve.

Participants frequently discussed the implications of developing countries' heavy dependence on primary commodity exports.

Thus, Palestine faced a political economy of forced dependence and an unpredictable war environment.

Similarly, renminbi internationalization should be encouraged rather than resisted. To be sure, wider international use of the renminbi as a vehicle for cross border trade and investment will heighten other countries dependence on renminbi denominated credit in times of crisis.

While these figures may be helpful in indicating how countries can harness services trade for development, developing countries remain particularly vulnerable to external shocks over which they have no control, given their over dependence on a limited number of service activities.

With China s trade to GDP ratio and exports to GDP ratio already exceeding 60 and 30 , respectively, the economy cannot continue to depend on external demand to sustain growth. Unfortunately, with a large export sector that employs scores of millions of workers, this dependence has become structural, which implies that to reduce China s trade dependency and trade surplus is much more than a matter of adjusting macroeconomic policy.

This world summit recognizes that our globe is one of shared dependence and shared opportunity.

This means an unavoidable dependence on military pattern vehicles and in particular armoured personnel carriers.

The role of acupuncture in the treatment of dependence has become more widespread in recent years.

The Board considers that this increased unduly the dependence of the Organization on the IMIS contractor.

The same is true of the stereotypes of female characteristics (dependence, subordination, uncertainty, intuition, emotiveness, etc.).

Furthermore, over dependence on external financing can sometimes undermine the sustainability and even independence of NGOs.

But there is another explanation for China s excessive export dependence, one that has more to do with the country s poor political and economic institutions. Specifically, export dependence partly reflects the high degree of difficulty of doing business in China.

As oil prices rise, these countries dependence on the oil sector increases, despite all efforts to diversify their economies. To combat the impact of such dependence, they spend oil revenues on other sectors, leaving the oil sector with little investment.

Financial institutions and markets assumed productivity would continue to grow at the pace of the late 1990 s, which fostered an asset price boom that conveyed an illusion of well being those not directly involved in the financial bubble were coopted through buoyant international trade. European growth, with its heavy dependence on trade, received a special boost, as did emerging markets.

Although South South trade was increasing, it was limited in nature, impact and scope to a few regions Africa in particular remained on the periphery of the phenomenon as a result largely of the serious structural weakness of African economies and their dependence on commodities.

So here the world is put out of focus, while our visual dependence is put into focus.